19-21 Massasoit Street
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Topographic or Assessor's Map
Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
24C-86 Easthampton NTH.294
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 19-21 Massasoit Street
Historic Name: Calvin Coolidge House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Two-family residence
Date of Construction: 1900-1901
Source: NRHP nomination form
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: J.W. O ’Brien, builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof:
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.16 acres
Setting: This is a west-facing house on an
established, residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [19-21 MASSASOIT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 1
NTH.294
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Calvin Coolidge two-family house is a well-designed version of the Colonial Revival style. It is two-and-a-half stories in
height under a truncated hipped roof on which there are front-gabled dormers on the three visible elevations. Cross-hipped bays
project from the north and south and in the angle made by the main block and the cross bays are porches at each side of the
house that project on the west beyond the plane of the façade. The porches are the only features that are not mirror-images of
each other. They have low, hipped roofs that are supported on slender Doric columns, but the north porch extends further and
terminates in a pediment on its roof. The main block of the house on the west façade is two bays wide – one bay for each unit.
At the first story the fenestration is made up of two angled bay windows below windows at the second story that have 6/1 sash.
On north and south elevations, the cross-bays at the first story level have a paired window adjacent to an oriel window that
contains a band of three windows. There is a two-and-a-half story ell on the east elevation of the house. The north side of the
ell has an open side porch and the south side of the ell has a glassed-in side porch – a later alteration.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the
owners/occupants played within the community.
From Form B of 1976: “Calvin Coolidge occupied this dwelling on Massasoit Street from 1906 to 1930, at which time he moved
to ‘The Beeches’ on the more secluded Hampton Terrace. During the period of his residency, Coolidge served as City Councilor
and Mayor in Northampton, state senator and governor, vice-president and president of the United States. Coolidge succeeded
Warren Harding to the Presidency on August 2, 1923, and was elected in his own right in 1924. In 1929, Coolidge returned to
Northampton to resume his legal career until his death in 1933.”
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873.
Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831.
Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895.
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884.
Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.